The following questionnaire will be sent to all candidates seeking election to the State Legislature in South Minneapolis (by the South Minneapolis Organizing Committee for Bernie Sanders: Ed Felien, Sid Pranke, Debra Keefer Ramage, Dave Tilsen, Jason Galles):
If elected to the State Legislature, would you introduce and support legislation to:
1. Establish free tuition at community colleges for Minnesota residents and establish free childcare and early education for all infants and children;
2. Introduce a state ombudsman for students who have been subjected to aggressive sales and predatory lending;
3. Establish Single Payer Health Care for everyone in Minnesota;
4. Repeal cannabis prohibition and review all sentences of nonviolent drug offenders;
5. Require genetically modified organisms to be labeled if contained in food sold in Minnesota;
6. Prohibit the operation of for-profit prisons in the state of Minnesota;
7. Produce high-paying jobs in MN through infrastructure investment;
8. Propose a program to attract, welcome and resettle refugees from Syria, etc., to Minnesota;
9. Prohibit fracking in Minnesota;
10. Provide a path to full restoration of rights for ex-offenders.
The South Minneapolis Organizing Committee for Bernie will not consider endorsing a candidate who seeks the endorsement of the Minneapolis Police Federation.
